In-Situ Determination of Buildings’ Thermo- Physical Characteristics by Arash Rasooli

“…The first one calls for longer measurement methods (minimum three days), but includes a straight-forward, well-known procedure. This method is highly suitable for high temperature gradients across the wall. …”
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Fertility programs for lactating dairy cows: A novel presynch + timed artificial insemination program (Double E-Synch) produces similar ovarian dynamics, synchronization, and ferti... by Carlos E.C. Consentini, Tattiany Abadia, Juan P.A. Galindez, Ana L.M. Lopes, Pedro P.C. Ferro, Yasmim E. Pazini, Natalia V. Faria, Fernando Machado, Tuanne Capella, Tiago N. dos Santos, Marcelo Duarte, Paulo P. Ferreira, Luiz M.F. Matos, Danilo R. Ferreira, Ernane Campos, Alexandre Prata, Leonardo F. Melo, Milo C. Wiltbank, Roberto Sartori

“…Cows submitted to OvsP4/E2 received the following: on d 0, 20 µg of GnRH (double dose) and a new 2-g P4 insert; on d 7, PGF; on d 8, P4 insert removal, PGF, and EC; and on d 10, TAI (48 h after P4 insert removal). The GLIMMIX procedure of SAS 9.4 was used for statistical analyses (P ≤ 0.05). …”
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Reliability Analysis of Three-dimensional Soil Slopes Considering Spatial Variability of Soil Parameters by Wan Yukuai, Zhou Yuqi, Shao Linlan, Wang Yuke, Zhang Fei

“…The comparative analysis of safety factors and failure probabilities confirms the accuracy of the proposed method and computational procedure. Systematic studies are conducted for various slip surface forms, encompassing combinations of "cylindrical" and "cylindrical + ellipsoidal" shapes, as well as different correlation lengths and coefficients of variation. …”
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Introduction by Verena Balz

“…Among decision-making procedures that emerged in the context of spatial planning in the Netherlands was an array of practices commonly referred to as regional design. …”
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全基因组关联分析标准化流程的构建与扩展应用(Development and Extended Applications of Standardized Processes for Genome-Wide Association Studies) by 许喆1，2，石延枫1，2，张杰1，2，姜明慧1，2，刘阳1，2，李昊1，2，3，廖晓凌4，程丝1，2，3(XU Zhe1,2, SHI Yanfeng1,2, ZHANG Jie1,2, JIANG Minghui1,2, LIU Yang1,2, LI Hao1,2,3, LIAO Xiaoling4, CHENG Si1,2,3)

“…Multi-omics analysis module: this module integrated polygenic risk score, cross-cohort meta-analysis, Mendelian randomization, and colocalization analysis procedures, providing support for molecular mechanism interpretation and target screening using GWAS results. …”
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Substantial Research Secures the Blue Future for our Blue Plant by Moustafa Abdel Maksoud

“…One strategy in this effort is to assemble floating structure and the wind turbine onshore and then towing them out to sea. This procedure eliminates the need to use installation jack-up vessels with high crane capacity and therefore reduces overall installation time and costs. …”
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Cytisine Use Vs Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Relapsed Smokers with Heart Disease: Feasibility Results from a Pilot Randomized Trial by Hassan Mir, MD, MHI, MPH, FRCPC, FACP, Kerri-Anne Mullen, PhD, Javad Heshmati, PhD, Ashley Baldwin, BAHsc, Evyanne Quirouette, BSc, Emilie Serano, RN, MN, Mustafa Coja, BPHE, BA, Andrew L. Pipe, MD, Robert D. Reid, PhD

“…Conclusions: Il convient d’apporter des modifications au plan de l’essai, aux procédures de l’essai et à la manière dont les interventions sont offertes pour qu’un essai proprement dit soit réalisable. …”
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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of percutaneous nephrolithotomy, flexible ureterorenoscopy and extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy for lower pole stones: the PUrE RCTs by Oliver Wiseman, Daron Smith, Kath Starr, Lorna Aucott, Rodolfo Hernández, Ruth Thomas, Steven MacLennan, Charles Terry Clark, Graeme MacLennan, Dawn McRae, Victoria Bell, Seonaidh Cotton, Zara Gall, Ben Turney, Samuel McClinton

“…Participants Adults presenting with lower pole renal stones, able to undergo any of the treatments and complete trial procedures. Intervention Eligible participants were randomised in RCT1 to flexible ureteroscopic stone treatment or shockwave lithotripsy; and in RCT2 to flexible ureteroscopic stone treatment or keyhole surgery. …”
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Presenting the Model of Aligning the Individual Development Program (IDP) with the Career Path, Based on the Foundation's data-theorizing Approach by Ali Kafami Ladani, Abdolali Keshtegar, Aleme Keikha

“…The career path plan will provide goals for employees to put themselves on a path of development, thereby providing opportunities for personal advancement and procedures and methods (Abbaspour et al., 2017).Therefore, on the one hand, considering what was mentioned, one of the requirements for having a successful and dynamic organization is to benefit from capable human resources and develop and excel in various ways. …”
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Lessons from the PROTECT-CH COVID-19 platform trial in care homes by Philip M Bath, Jonathan Ball, Matthew Boyd, Heather Gage, Matthew Glover, Maureen Godfrey, Bruce Guthrie, Jonathan Hewitt, Robert Howard, Thomas Jaki, Edmund Juszczak, Daniel Lasserson, Paul Leighton, Val Leyland, Wei Shen Lim, Pip Logan, Garry Meakin, Alan Montgomery, Reuben Ogollah, Peter Passmore, Philip Quinlan, Caroline Rick, Simon Royal, Susan D Shenkin, Clare Upton, Adam L Gordon

“…We also planned to measure whether the treatments were cost-effective and how the all the trial procedures worked. We were planning to recruit 750 homes and 24,000 residents. …”
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Age and Tumor Stage Interplay in Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: Prognostic Factors, Mortality Trends, and Therapeutic Implications from a SEER-Based Analysis by Ayrton Bangolo, Vignesh K. Nagesh, Hadrian Hoang-Vu Tran, Brooke Sens, Daniel Elias, Behzad Amoozgar, Chase Tomasino, Izage Kianifar Aguilar, Charlene Mansour, Elizabeth Gagen, Lili Zhang, Sarvarinder Gill, Nisrene Jebara, Emma Madigan, Christin Candela, Dohaa Amin, Peter Giunta, Shubhangi Singh, Aman Siddiqui, Auda Auda, Paul Peej, Timophyll Y. H. Fong, Simcha Weissman, Printhia Matshi Lihau, John Bukasa-Kakamba

“…Despite the predominance of advanced-stage diagnoses, our analysis underscores the substantial survival benefits associated with treatment interventions, with surgical procedures demonstrating the most pronounced impact. …”
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The impact of buyer shopping orientations and demographic factors on the purchasing for different product types- in the context of online shopping by Haseba Salim Hamad

“…. & Sharma, S. 2003. Scaling procedures: issues and applications, London, Sage Publications. …”
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Didgital-art цінних паперів by Oleh Kardash, Viktor Chelombitko

“…The regularities of decoration are described — it has protective and aesthetic functions, which are realized by graphic design procedures. The use of natural equations to describe curves and provide them is proposed of a certain color. …”
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Melatonin versus midazolam in the premedication of anxious children attending for elective surgery under general anaesthesia: the MAGIC non-inferiority RCT by Christopher Deery, Robert Bolt, Diana Papaioannou, Matthew Wilson, Marie Hyslop, Esther Herbert, Nikki Totton, Zoe Marshman, Tracey Young, Jennifer Kettle, Sondos Albadri, Simon Atkins, Katie Biggs, Janet Clarkson, Chris Evans, Laura Flight, Jacqui Gath, Fiona Gilchrist, Kate Hutchence, Nicholas Ireland, Amanda Loban, Amy Norrington, Hamish Paton, Jaydip Ray, Helen Rodd, Elena Sheldon, Richard Simmonds, Christopher Vernazza

“…On average, costs over the 14 days post surgery were lower for those who received melatonin (−£46.20, 95% confidence interval −£166.14 to £66.74) with a mean incremental difference in procedure success of −0.02 (95% confidence interval −0.08 to 0.004), although there was uncertainty around the results. …”
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Young People's Housing Opportunity in Post-reform China by Weijing Deng

“…Each tenure has its own allocation procedures and particular criteria for deciding which applicants are most eligible and deserving. …”
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Co-designing and testing the learn together guidance to support patient and family involvement in patient safety investigations: a mixed-methods study by Jane O’Hara, Lauren Ramsey, Siobhan McHugh, Joseph Langley, Justin Waring, Ruth Simms-Ellis, Gemma Louch, Jenni Murray, Carl Macrae, John Baker, Rebecca Lawton, Daisy Halligan, Olivia Rogerson, Penny Phillips, Debra Hazeldine, Sarah Seddon, Joanne Hughes, Rebecca Partridge, Katherine Ludwin, Laura Sheard

“…Recommendations Policy and procedures need to formally recognise that there are multiple purposes for responding to a safety incident and that organisational learning is only one of these purposes. …”
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H and D ∕ H analysis in olivine and wadsleyite with a multi-analytical approach combining Raman spectroscopy and ion and nuclear probes by A. Gautier, N. Bolfan-Casanova, B. Moine, H. Bureau, H. Khodja, A. C. Withers, L. Piani

“…Our aim is to establish a calibration procedure that allows accurate quantification of the hydrogen content and <span class="inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M6" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mrow class="chem"><mi mathvariant="normal">D</mi><mo>/</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">H</mi></mrow></math><span><svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24pt" height="14pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="e4022fe1fd207c62e15fbadd87aa382d"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="ejm-37-305-2025-ie00005.svg" width="24pt" height="14pt" src="ejm-37-305-2025-ie00005.png"/></svg:svg></span></span> ratios of D-doped experimental samples using Raman spectroscopy, as confirmed by secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). …”
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THE ETHICAL STARTUP? by Alexis Walker

“…Companies must remain responsible for protecting users, rather than placing responsibility on consumers for protecting themselves via consent procedures.[18] Many ethical frameworks acknowledge that consent alone does not waive organizational obligations. …”
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Determination of pressure baseline corrections for clumped-isotope signals with complex peak shapes by S. Räss, S. Räss, P. Nyfeler, P. Nyfeler, P. Wheeler, W. Price, M. C. Leuenberger, M. C. Leuenberger

“…Furthermore, we extensively discuss correction procedures of varying complexity and explain why the best results were obtained by predicting multiple background values from the corresponding signals on the peak top (on-peak signals). …”
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Internet and telephone intervention to support patients discontinuing long-term antidepressants in primary care: the REDUCE research programme including RCT by Tony Kendrick, Beth Stuart, Hannah Bowers, Mahboobeh Haji Sadeghi, Helen Page, Christopher Dowrick, Michael Moore, Mark Gabbay, Geraldine Leydon, Guiqing Lily Yao, Shihua Zhu, Paul Little, Gareth Griffiths, Glyn Lewis, Carl May, Joanna Moncrieff, Chris F Johnson, Una Macleod, Simon Gilbody, Rachel Dewar-Haggart, Samantha Williams, Wendy O’Brien, Riya Tiwari, Catherine Woods, Tasneem Patel, Naila Khan, Emma Maund, Nadja van Ginneken, Amy Din, Claire Reidy, Rebecca Lucier, Bryan Palmer, Taeko Becque, Yumna Masood, Natalie Thompson, Ellen van Leeuwen, Marta Glowacka, Adam WA Geraghty

“…Workstream 4 (WS4) was a feasibility RCT to assess procedures for a definitive RCT to follow, including practice and patient recruitment (from both medical record searches and opportunistically in consultations); follow-up rates; the acceptability and feasibility of our internet and PWP telephone interventions; the acceptability and feasibility of the trial procedures and outcome measures; and participants’ views of involvement in the trial, through qualitative interviews with patients and practitioners. …”
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